Transferring strip and scale



No Modell) W. D. KIMBALL.

TRANSFBRRING STRIP AND SCALE.

No. 603,088. a Patented Apr. 26,1898.

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XVILLIA D. KIMBALL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

TRANSFERRING STRIP AND SCALE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,088, dated April 26, 1898.

i Application filed November 25, 1896. Serial No. 613,398. (No model.)

To all whom zit may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM D. KIMBALL, acitizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, have invented a certain new and useful ImprovementJ in Transferring Strips and Scales; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom` panying drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in architects or engineers transferring strips and scales; and it consists in the matters hereinafter describedand,pointed out in the appended claims.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective view illustrating my invention.

In oiiices where drafting is done there is constant use for strips of paper for transferring points or lines or measurements from one set of drawings to another. There is also a constant use for scales of different measurements, and in engineers and architects offices of scales printed with graduations of tenths or hundredths of a foot to correspond with their printed paper.

The object of my invention is to combine the strips and scales of dierent dimensions or to combine strips of different lengths with scales of different dimensions.

To this end I construct my improved device as indicated in the drawing, in which- A, A', and A2 designate strips of convenient lengths, preferably, however, of different lengths and each strip terminating at its upper end in a stub-section a', separated from the strip proper by a line or perforations c'. The stub-sections of the strips are conveniently blocked together in any desired manner and may be perforated, as at a2, for engagement with a suitable hook or suspension device B.

Along one edge of each strip is printed or otherwise suitably marked a scale C of measurements, the scales upon the strips of different lengths being preferably made up of diiierent graduations-as, for instance, one scale might be measurements one-fourth inch to the foot at one end and one-eighth inch at the other, another one inch to the foot at one end and one-half inch at the other, another one and one-half inches to the foot at one end and different at the other, and so on.

The other front edge and the two back edges are preferably left blank and without marks or measurements for the purpose of transferring measurements from one drawing to another.

In using myimproved combination of strips and scales the set of strips provided with the various graduations and suitably blocked together is hung or placed in a convenient position and when the user is in need of a scale he simply pulls or tears from the block or bunch astrip marked with the graduations of the scale which he needs. If it is desirable to transfer measurements from one drawing to another, the draftsman may use the blank edge for marking or checking off the measurements desired, and thus transfer said measurements to another drawing or page in an obvious and familiar manner. The usual scales of graduations which are used by architects, engineers, and other draftsmen are constructed from hard wood or metal and are more or less expensive, and by constant and long-continued use they become frequently damaged and the graduations become very indistinct, so that it is hard to distinguish them. Scales of this description are often mislaid or lost, and when mislaid a considerable loss of time is sometimes occasioned thereby. By my improvement, however, the strips being blocked together and permanently suspended or placed in a convenient location are always available for instant use, and when the draftsman is through using any particular scale or strip the same may be torn up or thrown away without material loss. Furthermore, by the use of these strips the graduations thereon are always clear and visible and occasion no trouble to the user in distinguishing them.

It has been a common practice in architects, engineers, and other drafting offices for the draftsman to cut large pieces of eX- pensive paper into narrow strips for the purpose of transferring measurements. This necessarily results in a very considerable waste of time and paper. My improved device provides a set or block of such strips IOO adapted for transferring purposes and at the same time printed with scales of appropriate measurements.

The central portions of the strips may be used for advertising purposes, if desired. Manufacturers and dealers are constantly devising new means for advertising and keeping their names and the names of the articles or commodities they manufacture or sell before the persons using the same, and for this purpose the advertising-spaces on the strips may be employed to advantage and will serve to keep the name of the manufacturer or the article always in plain sight.

By my improvement, therefore, I am enabled to provide a very simple, neat, and useful form of device, which is always ready for use and, while being very satisfactory for the purposes described, is comparatively inexpensive.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. As an article of manufacture, a measuring and mark-transferring device, consisting of a plurality of strips of paper, or analogous material, arranged in sets, the strips of the different sets being of unequal length, but the strips of each set being of the same length and arranged together, and all of said several sets of strips blocked or fastened together at one end, and each strip throughout the series having a detaching-line or perforations across the blocked portion, said detaching-line or perforations being at the same point of each strip, to adapt each strip to be detached at the same point, and each strip also having a scale of ymeasurements along one edge.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a measuring and mark-transferring device, consisting of a plurality of strips of paper, or analogous material, arranged in sets, the strips of the different sets being of unequal length, but the strips of each set being of the same length and arranged together, and all of said several sets of strips blocked or fastened together at one end, and provided at said end with a suitable suspending device, and each strip throughout the series having a detaching-line or perforations across the blocked portion, said detaching-line or perforations being at the same point of each strip to adapt each strip to be detached at the same point, and each strip havingascale of measurements along one edge, and having the other edge of the scale-face of the strip and the longitudinal edges of the opposite face of the strip free from printing or other markings.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM D. KIMBALL. Witnesses:

E. W. STOUT, M. M. WILns. 

